Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!apple!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!acorn!ixi!ixi!paul From: paul@ixi.uucp (Paul Davey) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: What terms should an editor support? Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 90 17:44:14 GMT References: <2908@unccvax.uncc.edu> <4241@auspex.auspex.com> Sender: paul@x.co.uk (Paul Davey) Organization: IXI Ltd. Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: hitz@auspex.auspex.com's message of 3 Nov 90 23:16:42 GMT In article <4241@auspex.auspex.com> hitz@auspex.auspex.com (Dave Hitz) writes: In article <2908@unccvax.uncc.edu> cs00jec@unccvax.uncc.edu (Jim Cain v2.0.1) writes: > I am writing a screen editor as a senior project (please no evangilizations > on vi/emacs/etc). What terminals should it support, just in case I don't > use standard termcaps and instead write my own? (I will most likely use > curses etc but just in case) The file /etc/termcap contains a list of terminals your editor should support. Consider this an argument in favor of using termcap(3) or curses(3). You might also include X terminals - ie give full X support, not just running it in an Xterm. -- Regards, pd@x.co.uk IXI Limited Paul Davey pd@ixi.uucp 62-74 Burleigh St. ...!uunet!ixi!pd Cambridge U.K. "These are interesting times" +44 223 462 131 CB1 1OJ